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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Energy Prices: Discussion (4 Oct 2022)

Brian Leddin: Are sufficient resources being allocated to process applications as quickly as possible? To come at it another way, if a business looks at the scheme, thinks it sounds great and goes for it, how long will it wait for a connection?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Energy Prices: Discussion (4 Oct 2022)

Brian Leddin: I am breaking my own rules here and going way beyond the five minutes but is ESB Networks thinking about a rapid increase in demand for these kinds of installations because energy prices are increasing so quickly? ESB Networks is thinking about 650 applications now but it may be the case that every second small or medium-sized enterprise in the country will want to do this in the very near...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Energy Prices: Discussion (4 Oct 2022)

Brian Leddin: I thank the witnesses. I will come back to them some other time about the offshore stuff.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Energy Prices: Discussion (4 Oct 2022)

Brian Leddin: I wish to comment on the last point about offshore renewables as I am not sure if I heard Mr. Tarrant correctly and I know that he is not here to talk about the transmission system. Did he say that if we site large energy users like data centres close to where energy is generated then that will take pressure off our distribution and transmission systems?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Energy Prices: Discussion (4 Oct 2022)

Brian Leddin: Does Electric Ireland plan them?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Energy Prices: Discussion (4 Oct 2022)

Brian Leddin: I have just returned from Aberdeen where some of my colleagues from this committee and I looked at that Moray East offshore wind farm that is comprised of 100 turbines and located about 50 km off the coast. Moray East Offshore Wind Farm is incredibly impressive. It seems to me that the system in this country has been very east coast-leaning throughout its history thus leading to a faster...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Energy Prices: Discussion (4 Oct 2022)

Brian Leddin: This committee could discuss this issue in another session and maybe with the transmission system operator as well.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Energy Prices: Discussion (4 Oct 2022)

Brian Leddin: Deputy McNamara is welcome to the committee. We intend to wrap up at 2 p.m. so there are a few minutes.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Energy Prices: Discussion (4 Oct 2022)

Brian Leddin: Our guests will need time to answer, so bear that in mind.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Energy Prices: Discussion (4 Oct 2022)

Brian Leddin: This is ESB Networks, which I do not think has any role in that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Energy Prices: Discussion (4 Oct 2022)

Brian Leddin: The Deputy is welcome to join us every Tuesday at 11 a.m. We are right up to 2 p.m. so I thank Mr. Tarrant and Mr. Duignan for their time and for engaging with us. It was an interesting and thorough session.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Enforcement of Road Traffic Offences: Discussion (4 Oct 2022)

Brian Leddin: I thank the Chair, in particular, and committee members for having this session, which is critically important. As they know, it is something in which I take a particular interest and pushed with members of the committee. I am very happy to see that it is happening today. As I said, it is critically important. I get the sense that many people in this room do not understand just how...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Enforcement of Road Traffic Offences: Discussion (4 Oct 2022)

Brian Leddin: I asked I Bike Dublin to respond first, but please leave 90 seconds for the gardaí to respond.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Enforcement of Road Traffic Offences: Discussion (4 Oct 2022)

Brian Leddin: I am really happy to hear that Mr. Murphy is positive about that technology. I think he would agree that it would make his work a hell of a lot easier. It is in use in Belfast and the neighbouring jurisdiction. We need to facilitate its use here as quickly as possible. If the committee can help in that regard, that is what we are here to do. The Road Traffic and Roads Bill 2021 is on...

Electricity Costs (Domestic Electricity Accounts) Emergency Measures and Miscellaneous Provisions Bill 2022: Second Stage (11 Oct 2022)

Brian Leddin: Households across Ireland and Europe are under severe financial pressure this year because of the energy crisis created by the Russian tyrant, his occupation of an independent and sovereign state and his control of the natural resources we in Europe rely on so heavily to light and heat our homes and to run our industries. Nobody should be under any illusions about this. The reason energy...

Employment Permits Bill 2022: Second Stage (Resumed) (12 Oct 2022)

Brian Leddin: It is difficult to disagree with many of the points made by speakers across the House. I welcome the opportunity to speak on the Bill. Yesterday I chaired an important meeting of the Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment and Climate Action. Senior officials from the SEAI were at the committee to discuss the progress they are making and the challenges they face in carrying out their...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (11 Oct 2022)

Brian Leddin: 78. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the steps that are being undertaken now to plan for summer provision in summer 2023; if the programme still appropriately serves the children for whom it was initially designed to help; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50029/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (11 Oct 2022)

Brian Leddin: 111. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of education professionals who engaged with summer provision in 2022; if that matched the demand for places; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50030/22]

Ceisteanna Eile (Atógáil) - Other Questions (Resumed): Parental Leave (13 Oct 2022)

Brian Leddin: 103. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will outline the various types of family and caring leave that have expanded in Ireland over the past ten years; if his attention has been drawn to any data measuring how beneficial this has been to families in this time; the plans under consideration for the future provision of leave; and if he will make...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action: Retrofitting Schemes: Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland (11 Oct 2022)

Brian Leddin: Apologies have been received from Deputy Alan Farrell and Senator Higgins. The purpose of today's meeting is to discuss the various retrofitting schemes available, as well as district heating, which has been raised here in the last number of weeks. On behalf of the committee, I welcome the following representatives from the Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland, SEAI: Ms Margie McCarthy,...